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Design. Ten alternating stripes of white and light blue, with a red lion taken from the coat of arms superimposed on the center. Luxembourg flag. The national flag of Luxembourg [a] consists of three horizontal stripes, watermelon red, white and light blue, and can be in 1:2 or 3:5 ratio. It was first used between 1845 and 1848 and officially ...
Luxembourg is a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch, Grand Duke Henri, making it the world's only remaining sovereign grand duchy. The County of Luxembourg was established in the 11th century, as a state within the Holy Roman Empire.
"Ons Heemecht" (formerly "Ons Hémecht", pronounced [ons ˈheːməɕt]; lit. ' Our Homeland ') is the national anthem of Luxembourg.Written by Michel Lentz in 1859 and set to music by Jean Antoine Zinnen in 1864, it is performed at national celebrations, while the grand ducal anthem "De Wilhelmus" is performed at entrances or exits of members of the Grand Ducal Family.
Luxembourgish was considered a German dialect like many others until about World War II but then it underwent ausbau, creating its own standard form in vocabulary, grammar, and spelling and therefore is seen today as an independent language. Luxembourgish managed to gain linguistic autonomy against a vigorous One Standard German Axiom by being ...
The Imperial Orilflamme of Charlemagne. A 3 pointed green field with 8 golden crosses and 6 flowers. 1242-1443. Flag of The County and Duchy of Luxemburg. A banner of the coat of arms of Luxembourg. It is made of ten horizontal white and blue stripes with a red lion with yellow claws, teeth, tongue and crown over all. 1443-1556.
National symbols of Luxembourg. The national flag. The Gëlle Fra national monument. The civil ensign, depicting the red lion. The national grandes armoires. The national bird: the Goldcrest. There are a number of national symbols of Luxembourg, representing Luxembourg or its people in either official or unofficial capacities.
Flag of the Netherlands. A horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue. 1976–present. Flag of Aruba. A medium blue field with a white fimbriated (bordered) red four-pointed star in its upper hoist corner and two narrow horizontal yellow stripes in its lower half. 1984–present. Flag of Curaçao.
In the word-final position the contrast between the voiceless /p, t, tʃ, k, f, s, ʃ, χ/ on the one hand and the voiced /b, d, dʒ, ɡ, v, z, ʒ, ʁ/ on the other is neutralized in favor of the former, unless a word-initial vowel follows in which case the obstruent is voiced and are resyllabified, that is, moved to the onset of the first syllable of the next word (the same happens with /ts ...